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The percentage of women never married experienced a sharp climb after 1980 (U.S. Census Bureau)

In 2009, ABC News referenced 1.8 million more black women than black men. "So even if every black man in America married a black woman today, one out of 12 black women still wouldn't make it down the aisle if they hoped to marry a Black man. (Lindsey Davis and Hana Karar).

And who can forget this epic line from Newsweek's 1986 cover story, The Marriage Crunch, "Women over 40 are 'more likely to be killed by a terrorist' than find a husband." Not quite as riot-inciting but equally dismal, the The U.S. Census Bureau confirmed that the probability of college-educated women marrying at age 30 was 60 percent, and 23 percent at age 40 (Bureau of Labor Statistics, October 2013: Monthly Labor Review).

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Hello Statistics Busters!

Welcome to the Statistics Be Darned community! My name is Suzette Vearnon and I too am a Statistics Buster. For on December 27, 2014, I defied the statistics by marrying the most wonderful man--on my 55th birthday! Had I listened to what the statistics predicted, I would have never found out that my dreams of having a life partner could come true.

My husband and I in Montreal, CANADA on our honeymoon

(Click here to get the free audio, "How I Changed The Way I Dated And Got The Man")

Every now and again, I'll check the stats pertaining to single women who comprise our community: college educated women over 30, women over 40 and women of color, hopeful that the predictions are shifting from unfavorable to favorable. While there is improvement in certain areas, when I googled "statistics about single college educated women over 30," (in the year of our Lord, 2016) these were the results that graced my page in exact order:

Now for some of you, these search results don't phase you a bit. Perhaps you are bringing men in by the droves or perhaps you have checked out on the whole love and happily-ever-after thing altogether. But for countless women all over the globe, these headlines are heartbreaking. It is for you my dear single sisters that this community was created. And it is to you that I give his message: One, there is hope. And two, don't you dare settle.